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Spider Crickets and Allies
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Spider Crickets and Allies

Phalangopsidae

Phalangopsidae, which includes the "spider crickets" and their allies, is a reconstituted (2014) family of crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera), with the type genus Phalangopsis. Priority for family-group names based on this genus dates from Blanchard's "Phalangopsites".

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5 branches of this family, most-observed first

Spider Crickets

subfamilyPhalangopsinae

Paragryllinae

subfamilyParagryllinae

Cacoplistinae

subfamilyCacoplistinae

Phaloriinae

subfamilyPhaloriinae

Megacris

genusMegacris

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 523732.